Remember how the moth community came out to endorse my new bedroom wallpaper?

Well our Nature Correspondent has noticed something similar in her auntie’s house, where she spent the summer. Here are her pictures of moths appreciating the various surfaces of a tastefully decorated home.

Has Mother Nature sent a representative to admire any of your design choices? My cat pissing on my handmade velvet curtains does not, I feel, count as praise.*

*Mumsnet Moment: I cleaned them by soaking them in white vinegar. Smell -of both piss and vinegar – gone.

Love of list(ing)s

So delighted to hear about the Listed status given to Manze’s Pie, Eel and Mash shop in Walthamstow this week. The Manze’s chain has a number of these shops across London, some still owned by the family and some in other hands. I’ve always been to timid to go into the one in Peckham High […]

Resort Studios Margate

I braved the Big Storm looking out to sea in Margate. A bit of rain, a high wind, and days of glorious sunshine on either side of it. It was an open house weekend hosted by some of Margate’s many resident artists, and I took my hangover for a tour of Resort, a collective working […]

Find me a nice (normal) kids bed

I need another child’s bed. I’m all over Pinterest looking at the dozens of great ideas around. Except, force your eye past the nice cushions, cute quilts and quirky soft toys and it turns out there is a lot to weird bed to be found. I’m calling this one The Parent Nightmare-Giver. Don’t get me […]

Marimekko and Eric Leaper

It’s sunny, but a storm is coming, I believe. To prepare, I was watching this film about Marimekko’s Weather Diary range, inspired by Norwegian weather patterns. Marimekko video I love the plates, and their soaked, blurred pools of colour. They remind me of my lovely Leaper plate, another possesion of my mum’s, which I’ve been […]